On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:12:58 -0700, Winston
wrote:

Ned Simmons wrote:
On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:54:49 -0700 (PDT), Dave__67
wrote:



Also, no law stops someone from implementing any patented item for
their own use short of a commercial use.

Not so. There's no exception for personal use, in the US anyway.


I didn't know that. Thanks, Ned!

http://www.uspto.gov/patents/resources/general_info_concerning_patents.jsp#heading-24

"The [patent] grant confers 'the right to exclude others from making,
using, offering for sale, or selling the invention throughout the
United States or importing the invention into the United States'".

Another childhood illusion STH!

Sorry about that, Winston, but I was also the little turd who pulled
out a loose tooth and put it under my pillow without telling anyone.
Then ran downstairs in the morning waving the tooth around demanding,
"Where's the Tooth Fairy now?"


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Ned Simmons